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Meaning of raw material | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A material in its unprocessed, natural state considered usable for manufacture.
  2. Any physical product serving as input to a factory or other installation which processes it.

Equivalents

العربية عدة
Azərbaycanca xammal
Български суровина
Čeština surovina
Dansk råstof
Esperanto krudaĵo
Español materia prima
Français matière première
Galego materia prima
Magyar nyersanyag
Հայերեն հումք
Íslenska hráefni
Italiano materia prima
日本語 原料
ქართული ნედლეული
Қазақша шикізат
한국어 원료
Latviešu izejmateriāls
Македонски суровина
Nederlands grondstof
Português matéria-prima
Română materie primă
Slovenčina surovina
Српски sirovina сировина
Svenska råvara stoff
తెలుగు ముడి సరుకు
Türkçe ham madde
Українська сировина
Tiếng Việt nguyên liệu

Examples

“Petroleum is the raw material refined into various fuels and needed for countless chemicals.”
“The three main firms […] are increasing their output capacity and it is estimated that by 1964-5 railborne traffic will be about a third greater than the 1960 figure, reaching a total of something like 13½ million tons per annum, of which some 70 per cent will be inwards raw materials for these firms.”
“The assembly plant's raw materials are finished parts from Asian suppliers.”
“Teams will place all their unassembled raw materials and tools in the competition area along with two provided 5-gallon buckets of contaminated water and two provided stirring sticks.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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